Report Critical of Training of Teachers
New York Times, September 19, 2006
Most American teachers are trained in university programs with low admission and graduation standards, and with faculty members and courses that are often unimpressive and disconnected from what takes place in elementary and secondary schools, according to a study released yesterday.
Some education departments and schools should be shut down and others need vast improvement, said the report, “Educating School Teachers,” released by the Education Schools Project, a research group.
“Teacher education right now is the Dodge City of education, unruly and chaotic,” said the author of the report, Arthur Levine, the president of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and the former president of Teachers College at Columbia University.
“There is a chasm between what goes on in the university and what goes on in the classroom,” Dr. Levine said yesterday at a news conference in Washington.
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New York Times, September 19, 2006
Most American teachers are trained in university programs with low admission and graduation standards, and with faculty members and courses that are often unimpressive and disconnected from what takes place in elementary and secondary schools, according to a study released yesterday.
Some education departments and schools should be shut down and others need vast improvement, said the report, “Educating School Teachers,” released by the Education Schools Project, a research group.
“Teacher education right now is the Dodge City of education, unruly and chaotic,” said the author of the report, Arthur Levine, the president of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and the former president of Teachers College at Columbia University.
“There is a chasm between what goes on in the university and what goes on in the classroom,” Dr. Levine said yesterday at a news conference in Washington.
Click on the post title for all of it! Full report here.
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